EPFL (2008) - A Probabilistic Programming by Demonstration Framework Handling Constraints in Joint Space and Task Space

Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2008)
Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

Abstract: We present a probabilistic architecture for solving generically
the problem of extracting the task constraints through a
Programming by Demonstration (PbD) framework and for generalizing
the acquired knowledge to various situations. We propose an
approach based on Gaussian Mixture Regression (GMR) to find
automatically a controller for the robot reproducing the essential
characteristics of the skill by handling simultaneously
constraints in joint space and in task space. Experiments with two
5-DOFs Katana robots are then presented with two manipulation
tasks consisting of handling and displacing a set of objects.

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